Scaring them isn't a factor. I have pics of the same deer over and over from the same camera within hours, days and weeks. I have this one fork horn that seems very interested in the camera. I have pics of him walking straight to it and looking into the lens. This is while the camera is taking pics of him with the flash going.
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Hey, did you grab the blind bag with the shells when we left the truck?
Safetys, use them: If you can see red, you can get dead!

Check out this brute. He was one limb from being on my wall. Notice the tuft of hair missing from his back. That was all I got of him after my arrow bounced off of a dead bush. :pissed: We found one of his sheds that next fall. It had 7 points that grossed over 86 inches. The other side only had 5 points, but they were nice and long. He would have been the biggest bow kill in the state that year. I still have nightmares about that buck. We got 4 different pics of him (all at night) after I missed him. I love my camtracker. We have tons of great pics.

NICE man, very nice. As for the near miss, been there. It's sickening isn't it? Two years ago I was invited to hunt on family property of one of the officers I work with. They have something like 1000 acres in Newton county MO. They told me about a big buck they had been seeing for over 4 years, but nobody had ever gotten close for a shot. Only seeing him at night with the headlights. I scouted it for a few days, found a good spot in the corner of a field with ridges on two sides. Stand was set up 15 yards into the timber along a fence and I also hung a scent/scrape dripper within easy bow range. FIRST morning out, 10 minutes in the stand. I grunted a few times and bam, there he was. He came in with a 6 point and and a nice eight point. He was either a 10 or 11, I couldn't really tell and didn't want to concentrate on the antlers. He jumped the fence and walked straight to the stand tree. At 15 yards I drew, he stopped at an easy 8-9 yards. I had to bend down and lean back to clear some limbs. I let it fly and hit a small sapling about 18 inches high and not even a 1/4 inch thick. That's all it took. He jumped straight up in the air and cleared the fence and just stood there, maybe 5 minutes then walked away. The broadhead shattered on the rocks. I shaved his shoulder of about a 2 inch x 1/4 inch piece of hide, with some fat. Nothing at all lethal. Not even close to being a lethal wound, not even a drop of blood. He was easily a 170 inch deer. I have yet to see him again.

Hey, did you grab the blind bag with the shells when we left the truck?
Safetys, use them: If you can see red, you can get dead!

I have one & my buddy has two. We have all kind of pics. Not all of them are of deer either. Turkeys,coons.bobcat, &coyote. Put @ a corn feeder near a thicket after season & you can see what bucks have made it too.